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All Blacks great and Moana Pasifika coach Tana Umaga fears the region’s talent will gravitate to league and derail the Tongan and Samoan Test sides without a Super Rugby presence.The Super Rugby Pacific franchise is set to be disbanded after ownership on Wednesday confirmed it would not continue funding the “unviable” operation beyond this season.Introduced in 2022 alongside Fijian Drua, Pasifika was designed to represent Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.But plans to base the club in Samoa never eventuated and, apart from a single game in Apia and another in Tonga in five seasons, have instead operated in obscurity…

NewsFeedIran has rejected suggestions by Donald Trump that it has agreed to hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium to secure a peace deal. Tehran says talks are at an early stage and could take weeks to conclude. Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from Tehran.Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and top state lawmakers ordered an independent investigation Friday into a state Supreme Court justice over allegations she had an unethical relationship with an attorney who worked on a high-stakes redistricting case.Justice Diana Hagen, who was appointed by Cox, stands accused by her ex-husband of sending what he described as “inappropriate” text messages to an attorney who helped challenge a Republican-friendly map that maintained four red congressional seats in Utah. Hagen joined a unanimous decision to toss out Republicans’ redistricting plan in July 2024, a ruling that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Meghan Trainor hit the brakes on her next big thing.Trainor abruptly announced she was canceling her upcoming tour as the pop star revealed growing her family and performing across the country is “more than [she] can take on right now.””After a lot of reflection and some really tough conversations, I’ve made the difficult decision to cancel ‘The Get In Girl Tour,'” she wrote Thursday on her Instagram Story.”Balancing the release of a new album, preparing for a nationwide tour, and welcoming our new baby girl to our growing family of five has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Harrowing surveillance video captured the moment a Michigan teenager was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by a three-time repeat offender as she and her classmates waited for their school bus earlier this week. The alleged abduction unfolded just after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 13, when police say a 16-year-old student was waiting to board her school bus near the area of Edwinand Brombach streets in Hamtramck, authorities said in a news release. While she was standing at the bus stop, surveillance video shows the moment a man allegedly approached her, held a handgun to…

Diane Cooper and her Dalmatian have been missing for more than 10 days, and RCMP believe the 82-year-old Alberta woman is somewhere in Saskatchewan. Her last confirmed sighting was in Hoosier, Sask., a community 260 kilometres from Saskatoon, 11 days ago. If seen, she may be “disoriented and confused,” according to Mounties’ news release.Mounties believe she is still travelling with her dog, Halo.Initially, after their disappearance on April 6, an Air Tag tracking Cooper and Halo’s location was responsive, and said she was near Veteran, Alta., according to Consort RCMP.When police in Alberta responded to the call, they could not…

Like all parents, Marlene and Caillin Blackwood want their little boy Charlie to “grow old, fall in love, have a career and enjoy his life along the way.”Marlene describes Charlie, 5, as a funny, charismatic and adorable child who deserves every opportunity to thrive. But life has not been easy for Charlie, who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis just days after he was born.Since then he has spent more than 230 days in hospital, taken more than 27,000 doses of medicine and spent 1643 hours doing chest physiotherapy and nebulised treatments.His family lives in Bunbury, requiring hundreds of trips to…

Lebanon and Israel are holding first direct talks in decades.Israel agreed to the 10-day pause in attacks against Lebanon but has refused to withdraw its troops from the south.The ceasefire was announced after officials met in person in Washington, DC – the first direct talks since 1993.Now, there is hope for an agreement to end Israel’s invasion and air strikes.The Iran-aligned armed group Hezbollah remains the main stumbling block.Israel says any deal must include the dismantling of the group, while Hezbollah says it will not lay down its weapons.So, is a lasting peace agreement possible?And how much influence does Iran…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Houston Texans star defensive end Will Anderson Jr. reportedly agreed to a Texas-sized contract extension on Friday.The Texans and Anderson reportedly agreed to a three-year, $150 million extension, making the 24-year-old the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history, according to multiple reports. The deal includes $134 million in guaranteed money.The Texans exercised Anderson’s fifth-year option in April. With the reported extension, Anderson is under team control for five years and will be paid $177 million overall across those seasons. Houston Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. leaves the field after defeating the Buffalo…

The lead career federal prosecutor in Miami who was overseeing a criminal investigation into whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress is no longer assigned to the case, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News on Friday.Maria Medetis Long, who is the head of the national security section for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida, informed lawyers who have clients involved in the matter late this week that she was off the case, several of them confirmed. Medetis Long did not explain the reason for her removal, though a source familiar with the matter told CBS…